摩西之歌

32 「諸天啊,請留心聽;
大地啊,請聽我說。
願我的教導如雨降下,
願我的話語如露滴落,
像水滴滋潤嫩草,
像甘霖澆灌草木。
我要宣揚耶和華的名,
你們要頌讚我們上帝的偉大。

「祂是磐石,
祂的作為完美,
祂按公義行事,
祂信實可靠,公平正直。
狡詐、墮落的一代啊,
你們卻對祂不忠,行事敗壞,
不配做祂的兒女。
愚昧無知的人啊,
你們就這樣報答耶和華嗎?
祂是你們的父,你們的創造主,
祂創造了你們,塑造了你們。

「要回顧往昔,追溯歷史;
問你們的父親,
他們必回答你們;
問你們的長者,
他們必告訴你們。
當初,至高者賜萬國產業,
把人類分開,
祂依照天使[a]的數目,
為萬族定疆界。
但以色列人屬於耶和華,
雅各是祂的產業。

10 「在荒涼的曠野,
在野獸吼叫的荒野,
耶和華找到他們,
庇護他們,看顧他們,
保護他們如同保護眼中的瞳人,
11 又如老鷹攪動窩巢,
盤旋在雛鷹之上,展開雙翼,
背著雛鷹飛翔。
12 耶和華獨自帶領他們,
身邊沒有外族神明。
13 耶和華使他們馳騁在大地的高處,
吃田間的五穀,
磐石中的蜂蜜,
石頭地產的油;
14 吃牛酪和羊奶,
肥美的羔羊,
巴珊的綿羊和山羊,
上好的麥子;
喝葡萄汁釀的酒。

15 「但耶書崙[b]吃飽喝足,
養肥長壯後,就得意忘形,
背棄造他們的上帝,
藐視救他們的磐石。
16 他們拜外族的神明,令祂憤恨;
行可憎之事,惹祂發怒。
17 他們祭拜的不是真神,
而是鬼魔,
是他們素不認識的新神明,
是他們祖先所不敬畏的。
18 他們輕視生他們的磐石,
忘記養他們的上帝。

19 「耶和華看見祂兒女的惡行,
就憤然厭棄他們,
20 說,『這墮落的子民,
不忠的兒女!
我要掩面不理他們,
看他們的結局如何。
21 他們拜假神,讓我憤恨;
供虛無之物,惹我發怒。
我要藉無名之民挑起他們的嫉妒,
用愚昧的國民激起他們的怒氣。
22 我的怒火已經點燃,
要燒到陰間的盡頭,
吞滅大地及其出產,
甚至燒毀山的根基。

23 『我要使災禍連連臨到他們,
我的箭都射向他們。
24 他們必飽受饑荒之苦,
被瘟疫和災禍吞噬,
被猛獸和毒蛇襲擊。
25 外有刀劍殺戮,
內有恐懼籠罩,
少男、少女、嬰兒、
老人無一倖免。
26 我本要消滅他們,
使世人忘記他們;
27 但我不願讓敵人誇口,
宣稱這是他們的勝利,
而非我的作為。』

28 「以色列人愚昧無知,毫無見識。
29 如果他們有智慧,
就能明白這一切、
知道自己的結局。
30 若不是他們的磐石賣掉他們,
若不是耶和華拋棄他們,
一人怎能趕散他們千人?
二人怎能擊潰他們萬人?
31 我們的敵人也承認他們的磐石不如我們的磐石。
32 他們猶如來自所多瑪、
長在蛾摩拉的葡萄樹,
結的葡萄粒粒有毒,串串苦澀;
33 釀的酒如蛇的毒液,
如眼鏡蛇的毒液。

34 「祂說,『我把這一切積存起來,
封在我的倉庫裡。
35 伸冤在我,我必報應,
到時候他們必站不住腳,
他們遭禍的日子近了,
他們的末日來了。』

36 「耶和華見自己的子民力量衰竭,
奴隸和自由人所剩無幾,
必為他們主持公道,
憐憫祂的僕人。
37 祂必說,『你們的神明在哪裡?
庇護你們的磐石在哪裡?
38 它們吃你們祭牲的脂肪,
喝你們的奠酒。
讓它們起來幫助你們,
庇護你們吧!

39 『你們要知道,
唯有我是上帝;
除我之外,別無他神。
我掌管生死,我打傷、我醫治;
無人能逃出我的掌心。
40 我向天伸手,
憑我的永恆起誓,
41 我要磨快閃亮的劍,
主持公道,報應仇敵,
懲罰恨我的人。
42 我要使我的箭飽飲鮮血,
被殺被擄之人的血;
我的劍要吞噬人肉,
敵人將領的肉。』

43 「列邦啊,
你們當與祂的子民一同歡樂!
因為祂要為自己的僕人報血仇,
報應祂的仇敵,
潔淨祂的土地和子民。」

44 摩西和嫩的兒子約書亞把這首詩歌讀給會眾聽。

摩西的遺囑

45 讀完後,摩西又對以色列人說: 46 「要謹記我今天警告你們的話,要吩咐你們的子孫謹遵這律法上的話。 47 這律法不是空話,而是你們的生命。你們若遵守這律法,就必長住在約旦河對岸你們將要佔領的土地上。」

預言摩西的死

48 當天,耶和華對摩西說: 49 「你去耶利哥對面的摩押,登上亞巴琳山區的尼波山,觀看我要賜給以色列人作產業的迦南。 50 之後,你會死在山上,歸到你祖先那裡,如亞倫在何珥山離世歸祖一樣。 51 因為在荀曠野,在加低斯的米利巴泉旁,你和亞倫對我不忠,沒有在以色列人中尊我為聖。 52 所以,你只能遠遠地觀看我要賜給以色列人的土地,卻不能進去。」

Footnotes

  1. 32·8 天使」希伯來文是「以色列的兒子」。
  2. 32·15 耶書崙」是以色列的暱稱。

32 Cieux! prêtez l'oreille, et je parlerai; Terre! écoute les paroles de ma bouche.

Que mes instructions se répandent comme la pluie, Que ma parole tombe comme la rosée, Comme des ondées sur la verdure, Comme des gouttes d'eau sur l'herbe!

Car je proclamerai le nom de l'Éternel. Rendez gloire à notre Dieu!

Il est le rocher; ses oeuvres sont parfaites, Car toutes ses voies sont justes; C'est un Dieu fidèle et sans iniquité, Il est juste et droit.

S'ils se sont corrompus, à lui n'est point la faute; La honte est à ses enfants, Race fausse et perverse.

Est-ce l'Éternel que vous en rendrez responsable, Peuple insensé et dépourvu de sagesse? N'est-il pas ton père, ton créateur? N'est-ce pas lui qui t'a formé, et qui t'a affermi?

Rappelle à ton souvenir les anciens jours, Passe en revue les années, génération par génération, Interroge ton père, et il te l'apprendra, Tes vieillards, et ils te le diront.

Quand le Très Haut donna un héritage aux nations, Quand il sépara les enfants des hommes, Il fixa les limites des peuples D'après le nombre des enfants d'Israël,

Car la portion de l'Éternel, c'est son peuple, Jacob est la part de son héritage.

10 Il l'a trouvé dans une contrée déserte, Dans une solitude aux effroyables hurlements; Il l'a entouré, il en a pris soin, Il l'a gardé comme la prunelle de son oeil,

11 Pareil à l'aigle qui éveille sa couvée, Voltige sur ses petits, Déploie ses ailes, les prend, Les porte sur ses plumes.

12 L'Éternel seul a conduit son peuple, Et il n'y avait avec lui aucun dieu étranger.

13 Il l'a fait monter sur les hauteurs du pays, Et Israël a mangé les fruits des champs; Il lui a fait sucer le miel du rocher, L'huile qui sort du rocher le plus dur,

14 La crème des vaches et le lait des brebis, Avec la graisse des agneaux, Des béliers de Basan et des boucs, Avec la fleur du froment; Et tu as bu le sang du raisin, le vin.

15 Israël est devenu gras, et il a regimbé; Tu es devenu gras, épais et replet! -Et il a abandonné Dieu, son créateur, Il a méprisé le rocher de son salut,

16 Ils ont excité sa jalousie par des dieux étrangers, Ils l'ont irrité par des abominations;

17 Ils ont sacrifié à des idoles qui ne sont pas Dieu, A des dieux qu'ils ne connaissaient point, Nouveaux, venus depuis peu, Et que vos pères n'avaient pas craints.

18 Tu as abandonné le rocher qui t'a fait naître, Et tu as oublié le Dieu qui t'a engendré.

19 L'Éternel l'a vu, et il a été irrité, Indigné contre ses fils et ses filles.

20 Il a dit: Je leur cacherai ma face, Je verrai quelle sera leur fin; Car c'est une race perverse, Ce sont des enfants infidèles.

21 Ils ont excité ma jalousie par ce qui n'est point Dieu, Ils m'ont irrité par leurs vaines idoles; Et moi, j'exciterai leur jalousie par ce qui n'est point un peuple, Je les irriterai par une nation insensée.

22 Car le feu de ma colère s'est allumé, Et il brûlera jusqu'au fond du séjour des morts; Il dévorera la terre et ses produits, Il embrasera les fondements des montagnes.

23 J'accumulerai sur eux les maux, J'épuiserai mes traits contre eux.

24 Ils seront desséchés par la faim, consumés par la fièvre Et par des maladies violentes; J'enverrai parmi eux la dent des bêtes féroces Et le venin des serpents.

25 Au dehors, on périra par l'épée, Et au dedans, par d'effrayantes calamités: Il en sera du jeune homme comme de la jeune fille, De l'enfant à la mamelle comme du vieillard.

26 Je voudrais dire: Je les emporterai d'un souffle, Je ferai disparaître leur mémoire d'entre les hommes!

27 Mais je crains les insultes de l'ennemi, Je crains que leurs adversaires ne se méprennent, Et qu'ils ne disent: Notre main a été puissante, Et ce n'est pas l'Éternel qui a fait toutes ces choses.

28 C'est une nation qui a perdu le bon sens, Et il n'y a point en eux d'intelligence.

29 S'ils étaient sages, voici ce qu'ils comprendraient, Et ils penseraient à ce qui leur arrivera.

30 Comment un seul en poursuivrait-il mille, Et deux en mettraient-ils dix mille en fuite, Si leur Rocher ne les avait vendus, Si l'Éternel ne les avait livrés?

31 Car leur rocher n'est pas comme notre Rocher, Nos ennemis en sont juges.

32 Mais leur vigne est du plant de Sodome Et du terroir de Gomorrhe; Leurs raisins sont des raisins empoisonnés, Leurs grappes sont amères;

33 Leur vin, c'est le venin des serpents, C'est le poison cruel des aspics.

34 Cela n'est-il pas caché près de moi, Scellé dans mes trésors?

35 A moi la vengeance et la rétribution, Quand leur pied chancellera! Car le jour de leur malheur est proche, Et ce qui les attend ne tardera pas.

36 L'Éternel jugera son peuple; Mais il aura pitié de ses serviteurs, En voyant que leur force est épuisée, Et qu'il n'y a plus ni esclave ni homme libre.

37 Il dira: Où sont leurs dieux, Le rocher qui leur servait de refuge,

38 Ces dieux qui mangeaient la graisse de leurs victimes, Qui buvaient le vin de leurs libations? Qu'ils se lèvent, qu'ils vous secourent, Qu'ils vous couvrent de leur protection!

39 Sachez donc que c'est moi qui suis Dieu, Et qu'il n'y a point de dieu près de moi; Je fais vivre et je fais mourir, Je blesse et je guéris, Et personne ne délivre de ma main.

40 Car je lève ma main vers le ciel, Et je dis: Je vis éternellement!

41 Si j'aiguise l'éclair de mon épée Et si ma main saisit la justice, Je me vengerai de mes adversaires Et je punirai ceux qui me haïssent;

42 Mon épée dévorera leur chair, Et j'enivrerai mes flèches de sang, Du sang des blessés et des captifs, De la tête des chefs de l'ennemi.

43 Nations, chantez les louanges de son peuple! Car l'Éternel venge le sang de ses serviteurs, Il se venge de ses adversaires, Et il fait l'expiation pour son pays, pour son peuple.

44 Moïse vint et prononça toutes les paroles de ce cantique en présence du peuple; Josué, fils de Nun, était avec lui.

45 Lorsque Moïse eut achevé de prononcer toutes ces paroles devant tout Israël,

46 il leur dit: Prenez à coeur toutes les paroles que je vous conjure aujourd'hui de recommander à vos enfants, afin qu'ils observent et mettent en pratique toutes les paroles de cette loi.

47 Car ce n'est pas une chose sans importance pour vous; c'est votre vie, et c'est par là que vous prolongerez vos jours dans le pays dont vous aurez la possession, après avoir passé le Jourdain.

48 Ce même jour, l'Éternel parla à Moïse, et dit:

49 Monte sur cette montagne d'Abarim, sur le mont Nebo, au pays de Moab, vis-à-vis de Jéricho; et regarde le pays de Canaan que je donne en propriété aux enfants d'Israël.

50 Tu mourras sur la montagne où tu vas monter, et tu seras recueilli auprès de ton peuple, comme Aaron, ton frère, est mort sur la montagne de Hor et a été recueilli auprès de son peuple,

51 parce que vous avez péché contre moi au milieu des enfants d'Israël, près des eaux de Meriba, à Kadès, dans le désert de Tsin, et que vous ne m'avez point sanctifié au milieu des enfants d'Israël.

52 Tu verras le pays devant toi; mais tu n'entreras point dans le pays que je donne aux enfants d'Israël.

32 Listen,(A) you heavens,(B) and I will speak;
    hear, you earth, the words of my mouth.(C)
Let my teaching fall like rain(D)
    and my words descend like dew,(E)
like showers(F) on new grass,
    like abundant rain on tender plants.

I will proclaim(G) the name of the Lord.(H)
    Oh, praise the greatness(I) of our God!
He is the Rock,(J) his works are perfect,(K)
    and all his ways are just.
A faithful God(L) who does no wrong,
    upright(M) and just is he.(N)

They are corrupt and not his children;
    to their shame they are a warped and crooked generation.(O)
Is this the way you repay(P) the Lord,
    you foolish(Q) and unwise people?(R)
Is he not your Father,(S) your Creator,[a]
    who made you and formed you?(T)

Remember the days of old;(U)
    consider the generations long past.(V)
Ask your father and he will tell you,
    your elders, and they will explain to you.(W)
When the Most High(X) gave the nations their inheritance,
    when he divided all mankind,(Y)
he set up boundaries(Z) for the peoples
    according to the number of the sons of Israel.[b](AA)
For the Lord’s portion(AB) is his people,
    Jacob his allotted inheritance.(AC)

10 In a desert(AD) land he found him,
    in a barren and howling waste.(AE)
He shielded(AF) him and cared for him;
    he guarded him as the apple of his eye,(AG)
11 like an eagle that stirs up its nest
    and hovers over its young,(AH)
that spreads its wings to catch them
    and carries them aloft.(AI)
12 The Lord alone led(AJ) him;(AK)
    no foreign god was with him.(AL)

13 He made him ride on the heights(AM) of the land
    and fed him with the fruit of the fields.
He nourished him with honey from the rock,(AN)
    and with oil(AO) from the flinty crag,
14 with curds and milk from herd and flock
    and with fattened lambs and goats,
with choice rams of Bashan(AP)
    and the finest kernels of wheat.(AQ)
You drank the foaming blood of the grape.(AR)

15 Jeshurun[c](AS) grew fat(AT) and kicked;
    filled with food, they became heavy and sleek.
They abandoned(AU) the God who made them
    and rejected the Rock(AV) their Savior.
16 They made him jealous(AW) with their foreign gods
    and angered(AX) him with their detestable idols.
17 They sacrificed(AY) to false gods,(AZ) which are not God—
    gods they had not known,(BA)
    gods that recently appeared,(BB)
    gods your ancestors did not fear.
18 You deserted the Rock, who fathered you;
    you forgot(BC) the God who gave you birth.

19 The Lord saw this and rejected them(BD)
    because he was angered by his sons and daughters.(BE)
20 “I will hide my face(BF) from them,” he said,
    “and see what their end will be;
for they are a perverse generation,(BG)
    children who are unfaithful.(BH)
21 They made me jealous(BI) by what is no god
    and angered me with their worthless idols.(BJ)
I will make them envious by those who are not a people;
    I will make them angry by a nation that has no understanding.(BK)
22 For a fire will be kindled by my wrath,(BL)
    one that burns down to the realm of the dead below.(BM)
It will devour(BN) the earth and its harvests(BO)
    and set afire the foundations of the mountains.(BP)

23 “I will heap calamities(BQ) on them
    and spend my arrows(BR) against them.
24 I will send wasting famine(BS) against them,
    consuming pestilence(BT) and deadly plague;(BU)
I will send against them the fangs of wild beasts,(BV)
    the venom of vipers(BW) that glide in the dust.(BX)
25 In the street the sword will make them childless;
    in their homes terror(BY) will reign.(BZ)
The young men and young women will perish,
    the infants and those with gray hair.(CA)
26 I said I would scatter(CB) them
    and erase their name from human memory,(CC)
27 but I dreaded the taunt of the enemy,
    lest the adversary misunderstand(CD)
and say, ‘Our hand has triumphed;
    the Lord has not done all this.’”(CE)

28 They are a nation without sense,
    there is no discernment(CF) in them.
29 If only they were wise and would understand this(CG)
    and discern what their end will be!(CH)
30 How could one man chase a thousand,
    or two put ten thousand to flight,(CI)
unless their Rock had sold them,(CJ)
    unless the Lord had given them up?(CK)
31 For their rock is not like our Rock,(CL)
    as even our enemies concede.(CM)
32 Their vine comes from the vine of Sodom(CN)
    and from the fields of Gomorrah.
Their grapes are filled with poison,(CO)
    and their clusters with bitterness.(CP)
33 Their wine is the venom of serpents,
    the deadly poison of cobras.(CQ)

34 “Have I not kept this in reserve
    and sealed it in my vaults?(CR)
35 It is mine to avenge;(CS) I will repay.(CT)
    In due time their foot will slip;(CU)
their day of disaster is near
    and their doom rushes upon them.(CV)

36 The Lord will vindicate his people(CW)
    and relent(CX) concerning his servants(CY)
when he sees their strength is gone
    and no one is left, slave(CZ) or free.[d]
37 He will say: “Now where are their gods,
    the rock they took refuge in,(DA)
38 the gods who ate the fat of their sacrifices
    and drank the wine of their drink offerings?(DB)
Let them rise up to help you!
    Let them give you shelter!

39 “See now that I myself am he!(DC)
    There is no god besides me.(DD)
I put to death(DE) and I bring to life,(DF)
    I have wounded and I will heal,(DG)
    and no one can deliver out of my hand.(DH)
40 I lift my hand(DI) to heaven and solemnly swear:
    As surely as I live forever,(DJ)
41 when I sharpen my flashing sword(DK)
    and my hand grasps it in judgment,
I will take vengeance(DL) on my adversaries
    and repay those who hate me.(DM)
42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood,(DN)
    while my sword devours flesh:(DO)
the blood of the slain and the captives,
    the heads of the enemy leaders.”

43 Rejoice,(DP) you nations, with his people,[e][f]
    for he will avenge the blood of his servants;(DQ)
he will take vengeance on his enemies(DR)
    and make atonement for his land and people.(DS)

44 Moses came with Joshua[g](DT) son of Nun and spoke all the words of this song in the hearing of the people. 45 When Moses finished reciting all these words to all Israel, 46 he said to them, “Take to heart all the words I have solemnly declared to you this day,(DU) so that you may command(DV) your children to obey carefully all the words of this law. 47 They are not just idle words for you—they are your life.(DW) By them you will live long(DX) in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”

Moses to Die on Mount Nebo

48 On that same day the Lord told Moses,(DY) 49 “Go up into the Abarim(DZ) Range to Mount Nebo(EA) in Moab, across from Jericho,(EB) and view Canaan,(EC) the land I am giving the Israelites as their own possession. 50 There on the mountain that you have climbed you will die(ED) and be gathered to your people, just as your brother Aaron died(EE) on Mount Hor(EF) and was gathered to his people. 51 This is because both of you broke faith with me in the presence of the Israelites at the waters of Meribah Kadesh(EG) in the Desert of Zin(EH) and because you did not uphold my holiness among the Israelites.(EI) 52 Therefore, you will see the land only from a distance;(EJ) you will not enter(EK) the land I am giving to the people of Israel.”

Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 32:6 Or Father, who bought you
  2. Deuteronomy 32:8 Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls (see also Septuagint) sons of God
  3. Deuteronomy 32:15 Jeshurun means the upright one, that is, Israel.
  4. Deuteronomy 32:36 Or and they are without a ruler or leader
  5. Deuteronomy 32:43 Or Make his people rejoice, you nations
  6. Deuteronomy 32:43 Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls (see also Septuagint) people, / and let all the angels worship him, /
  7. Deuteronomy 32:44 Hebrew Hoshea, a variant of Joshua

32 Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.

My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:

Because I will publish the name of the Lord: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.

He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.

They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.

Do ye thus requite the Lord, O foolish people and unwise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?

Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.

When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.

For the Lord's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.

10 He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.

11 As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings:

12 So the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.

13 He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;

14 Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.

15 But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

16 They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.

17 They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.

18 Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.

19 And when the Lord saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.

20 And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith.

21 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

22 For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.

23 I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.

24 They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.

25 The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.

26 I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:

27 Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the Lord hath not done all this.

28 For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.

29 O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

30 How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the Lord had shut them up?

31 For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.

32 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:

33 Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.

34 Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?

35 To me belongeth vengeance and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.

36 For the Lord shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left.

37 And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted,

38 Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings? let them rise up and help you, and be your protection.

39 See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.

40 For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.

41 If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.

42 I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.

43 Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people.

44 And Moses came and spake all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun.

45 And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel:

46 And he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.

47 For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.

48 And the Lord spake unto Moses that selfsame day, saying,

49 Get thee up into this mountain Abarim, unto mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is over against Jericho; and behold the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel for a possession:

50 And die in the mount whither thou goest up, and be gathered unto thy people; as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered unto his people:

51 Because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of MeribahKadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel.

52 Yet thou shalt see the land before thee; but thou shalt not go thither unto the land which I give the children of Israel.